robonerd

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by robonerd 4y ago
I never experienced any trouble with audio in linux before pulseaudio. There is no memory repression here; only gaslighting from you, telling me I experienced something I didn't.
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by robonerd 4y ago
> If you have sufficiently boring PC hardware and sufficiently boring use cases, the audio will just kind of work anyway, without PulseAudio. Introducing breakage, complexity and general fragility to the common case, which was previous
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by robonerd 4y ago
> Have fun routing audio from one stream to one device and another stream to a different device on Windows or macos! I can do that with pulseaudio, but it's not fun.
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by robonerd 4y ago
Is he retiring? Is it time for champagne?
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by robonerd 4y ago
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by robonerd 4y ago
Keeping secrets in environmental variables has always seemed dodgy to me. Unless specifically cleared, they get inherited by all child processes. Maybe there are never any child processes in your application, or that could be desired beha
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by robonerd 4y ago
It's easy to play by the rules when you're the one writing them.
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by robonerd 4y ago
> Donkeys and horses produce infertile mules. Usually.
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by robonerd 4y ago
> There's nothing wrong with elevating talented no name actors but you need to pepper in some name recognition. That pepper is doubtlessly good for marketing, but I think it's bad for the art. With some exceptions, every tim
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by robonerd 4y ago
Steve Jobs was an asshole who always put money first. But even if you disagree with that, he's been dead for more than a decade. It's time to move on.
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by robonerd 4y ago
The "malicious actors" argument can be made anywhere people have freedom of association. The postal system, the phone system, even the mere right to walk out your front door. These all allow people to associate with whoever the
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by robonerd 4y ago
> (ie. getting stuck on "A stop job is running ..." Trying to unmount a manually mounted network drive after already taking down the network... very frustrating. Seeing the time remaining counter jump from 30 seconds to 2+
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by robonerd 4y ago
> Especially helpful on a laptop where the physical reset button is not available. Are there any where holding the power button for 10-15 seconds doesn't work? This has always been a reliable technique for me, when using linux on
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by robonerd 4y ago
"You're blocking the sidewalk [you aren't] but it will be okay if you also build a garage on top of the sidewalk" A good compromise? More like insanity.
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by robonerd 4y ago
The city said they would grandfather it if they could prove they'd been doing it for decades. Rightfully so. They provided such proof, and the city went back on their word and said that wasn't good enough. This damns the city&#
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by robonerd 4y ago
> it was blocking the public right of way. I don't know where their property line is precisely, but it simply isn't true that they're blocking the sidewalk. The back of their car is well clear of the sidewalk. It&#x2
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by robonerd 4y ago
They're being fined by the city, not a HOA.
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by robonerd 4y ago
The wikipedia page for strategic bombing is where I pulled that Churchill quote from. When strategic bombing specifically targets a civilian population with the intent to cause terror, by Churchill's own account, that is terrorism (t
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by robonerd 4y ago
That seems like an odd take. The purpose of a trailer is for the production to make their best argument to the audience about why they should see this show. If a trailer looks good, people get hyped for the show or movie and buy tickets
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by robonerd 4y ago
Even without music or a TV playing, many bars can be deafening simply due to the way the room is designed and decorated. There is a lot that can be done to address this, like sound baffles on the ceiling, but most bars either don't c
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by robonerd 4y ago
Well first off, the Senate is only part of Congress and the other half has more proportional representation. But more to the point, I was responding mostly to the remark about direct democracy. But it seems some people don't mean dir
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by robonerd 4y ago
> Except it's not an insult It is if it's said as one. Benign terms can become slurs when used in the right context with a particular tone.
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by robonerd 4y ago
If carbadtraingood was upfront about wanting the change as political activism, I wouldn't have responded to him. I don't think it will ever be an effective way at combating racism, but at least such a position is honest, upfront
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by robonerd 4y ago
> If hackers were (hypothetically, surely) to cause a liquid natural gas plant explosion, is that less terroristic than causing a truck, [...], a wastebin, a church, or a policeman's pub to explode? If there is a war going on, the
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by robonerd 4y ago
> The definition you offer doesn't appear to be compatible with either half of the sentence I asked about: Yes, I agree that privateer hackers aren't terrorists and I wasn't trying to bolster that claim. But it's n
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by robonerd 4y ago
It's not about being the best.
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by robonerd 4y ago
Terrorism is generally the use of tactics that inflict terror on a civilian population to get a desired effect. The specific exclusion of official government and military actions is motivated reasoning on the part of government officials
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by robonerd 4y ago
I think you're speaking of interest and motivation, without which you won't try to be creative or hit the gym. But I believe the capability still exists within you, even if you choose to ignore it. Nobody is unable to be an a
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by robonerd 4y ago
The term "allowlist" isn't motivated by some apolitical desire for literal self-describing terminology. It's political activism; you want to effect change in society by changing language. I know it, you know it, everyb
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by robonerd 4y ago
> The real undemocratic institution in the US is its most powerful, the US Senate. It should be directly democratic. I'm not qualified to vote on 95% of the stuff Congress has to deal with, so thanks for the offer, but no thanks.

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